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Democratic Primaries

ehrnst

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18. Who was saying this? (nt)

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Mon Apr 29, 2019, 04:23 PM

Apr 2019

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Question re Biden and the Rust Belt. [View all] Honeycombe8 Apr 2019 OP

Because many voters vote on personality and not issues, consciously and unconsciously DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2019 #1

Yes Freddie Apr 2019 #2

Exactly PatSeg Apr 2019 #8

Message auto-removed Name removed Apr 2019 #10

How so? (nt) ehrnst Apr 2019 #11

Message auto-removed Name removed Apr 2019 #16

Who was saying this? (nt) ehrnst Apr 2019 #18

Yeah PatSeg Apr 2019 #12

Message auto-removed Name removed Apr 2019 #15

Yes PatSeg Apr 2019 #19

Typical for voters to want change every 8 years MichMan Apr 2019 #29

I suppose that is human nature PatSeg Apr 2019 #33

Agreed. clutterbox1830 Apr 2019 #34

Look at recent state wide elections and flipping of governors from Republican to Democratic Freethinker65 Apr 2019 #3

I suspect it was a combination of two things-- lastlib Apr 2019 #4

Remember after 2016 when we all agreed... doompatrol39 Apr 2019 #5

I never agreed that rust belt voters meant racist and sexist. marylandblue Apr 2019 #7

It is unfortunate that is true for a good amount of those voters Trenzalore Apr 2019 #20

But that affected everyone doompatrol39 Apr 2019 #23

Exactly! EffieBlack Apr 2019 #28

Quite frankly they'll turn on Joe just like they turned on Hillary Trenzalore Apr 2019 #30

Yep doompatrol39 Apr 2019 #35

No, we did not all agree to that. SMC22307 Apr 2019 #31

Because DownriverDem Apr 2019 #6

Biden is well liked personally, but many things he did are not popular. marylandblue Apr 2019 #9

He was also Obama's veep for 8 years. ucrdem Apr 2019 #13

Thanks to everyone for some insightful thoughts on this. Honeycombe8 Apr 2019 #14

most didn't vote for Trump based on economy. Biden is an old white man JI7 Apr 2019 #17

That is a fallacy Trenzalore Apr 2019 #21

Mondale was 56 crazytown Apr 2019 #27

They didn't vote for Trump because of jobs and the economy EffieBlack Apr 2019 #22

I'm in PA and I can say for a fact FakeNoose Apr 2019 #24

Very interesting insight. Honeycombe8 Apr 2019 #25

Yes I've been mentioning this on DU and others have too FakeNoose Apr 2019 #32

Let's be honest. Hillary was not popular there. She didn't show. redstateblues Apr 2019 #26